Safety-rail.



J. A. SPEGK.

SAFETY RAIL.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 15, 1914.

1,104,080, Patented July 21, 1914.

UNITED STATES PATENT JAMES A. SPECK, 0F SALEM, OREGON.

SAFETY-RAIL.

1,1o4,oso.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 21, 1914.

Application filed January 15, 1914. Serial No. 812,212.

' Oregon, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inSafety-Rails; and I do hereby declare the following tobe a full, clear,and exact description of the invention such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has relation to railway rails and has for its object toprovide rails so constructed and joined as to present a continuous andunbroken tread surface for the rolling stock traveling thereover, thuseliminating the usual and objectionable noises made by the latter inpassing over a joint between two rails of ordinary construction.

Another object is to provide a noiseless track wherein the adjacent endsof the rails are normally spaced apart suflicient distance to permitfree expansion thereof, while the tread surface of the rails ismaintained unbroken during contracted condition thereof.

In the accompanying drawings wherein is shown an approved and practicalembodiment of the invention,

Figure 1 represents a top plan view of a section of railway trackconstructed in accordance with the invention. Fig. 2 represents a sideelevation thereof, and, Fig. 3 represents an end view of the rail andchair movably positioned thereon.

Referring to the drawing in detail wherein similar reference numeralsdesignate corresponding parts throughout the several views, the numeral5 indicates the track rails constructed in accordance with my inventionand having the ends beveled or cut at an angle approximately relativetothe longitudinal center thereof. The ends of each rail are so beveledthat the end surfaces thereof lie in parallel planes. The adjacent endsofthe two rails are secured together by and supported on a rail chair 6which may be conveniently slipped back from the end of one rail whilethe other rail is properly positioned, and subsequently moved into theposition shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Suitably secured bolts 7 are positionedthrough the parallel portions of the chair 6 and the webs of the rails 5and are pr0- vided with suitable nuts for securing the rails inoperative position.

It will be understood that while I have here shown-a special form ofrail chair for securing the ends of the rails together, any otherpreferred form of chair or fish plate may be substituted therefor.

The adjacent ends of the rails 5 are normally spaced a distance apart asindicated at 8 so as to permit said rails to expand without danger ofspreading or buckling. During contracted condition of the track rails 5,the space 8 is obviously increased in width, but even under suchconditions the tread surface of the rails is maintained unbroken at thejoint owing to the peculiar formation of the ends thereof.

If desired, the portion of the base of the rails adjacent the chair 6may be formed with parallel slits 9 extending either parallel with or atright angles to the adjacent ends of the chair and intervening metalturned downwardly against said ends to further insure againstlongitudinal displacement of the chair and to form a lock for thispurpose.

W hat I claim is 1. In combination, rails having adjacent ends beveledto present a continuous tread surface, means for securing the ends ofthe rails in spaced relation, and parallel cuts in the base of saidrails adjacent said last mentioned means, said cuts forming lugs of thematerial therebetween which are bent against the ends of said lastmentioned means to form a lock thereagainst.

2. In combination, rails having parallel scarfed ends to form acontinuous tread surface, a chair adapted to hold said rails in spacedrelationship to each other, said chair having beveled ends, and means onthe base of said rails running parallel with the beveled ends of saidchair adapted to butt against said ends and lock said chair in operativeposition.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES A. SPECK.

Witnesses:

MABEL A. DELONG, E. M. PAGE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner 0! Patents, Washington, D. C.

